Call For Research Papers

Key areas of focus for Research papers/topics dealing with Computer Games Multimedia & Allied Technologies – CGAT Conference including but not limited to:

    • Computer Games, Multimedia
    • Cloud Computing and Virtualization
    • Web Technologies and Internet Applications
    • Social Computing and Behavioural Modeling
    • Enterprise Resource Planning & Supply Chain Management
    • Mobile Communications, Networking and Applications
    • Network Technologies & Communications

Computer Games, Multimedia

  • Optoelectronic instrumentation, measurement and metrology
  • Gaming – Mobile, PC, Online, Console
  • Aesthetic Approaches to Game Design & Development
  • Storytelling and Narrative Landscapes
  • Design Documentation
  • Games Simulations and Dynamic Models
  • Interactive Simulations
  • Tools and Systems for Games and Virtual Reality
  • Intelligent Agents and Gamebots
  • Gaming – Hardware and Accessories
  • Graphics & Visualisation
  • Texture and Shader Programming
  • Stereographic in Real-Time
  • Cinematography
  • Sound Design and Music Systems
  • Multichannel Audio
  • Audio Techniques for Racing Games
  • Media Theory
  • Interactive Dynamic Response for Games
  • Mapping the Mental Space of Game Genres
  • Cultural and Media Studies on Computer Games
  • Experiential Spatiality in Games
  • Player Behavior and Consumer Demographics
  • Game Development Contract Outsourcing
  • Project Funding and Financing
  • Social/Humanities Aspects of Games
  • Cheat Codes -To Cheat or Not to Cheat
  • Mobile and Multiuser Games
  • IPTV and Service Convergence
  • Pay-As-You-Play and IPTV
  • Academic Courses for Game Design & Development
  • Multiuser Virtual Environments (Muves) in Education
  • Learning to Play or Learning through Play
  • Game Security
  • Games and Intellectual Property Rights
  • Laws, Regulations, Certifications and Policies for Gaming
  • Censorship of Video Games Content
  • Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Gaming
  • Art, Design and New Media
  • Education, Training, and Edutainment Technologies
  • Human Factors of Games
  • Sound and Music
  • 3D Geometric models

Cloud Computing and Virtualization

  • Understanding the Cloud
  • The Dark Side of Clouds
  • Building Great Companies on the Cloud
  • Operating Systems
  • Kernel-Exchange Modules
  • Control Services
  • Distributed Composite Services
  • Basic Services
  • Application Exchange Modules
  • Cloud Enterprise
  • IT Security Delivered from the Cloud
  • Ahead in the cloud – The power of Infrastructure as a Service
  • Dynamic Deployment & Scalability for the Cloud
  • A Novel Approach to Cloud Networking
  • Cloud Architecture
  • The Benefits of Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Computing Applications
  • Distributed Infrastructure
  • Getting Ready for Cloud Computing – IT Strategy, Architecture and Security Perspective
  • The Business Value of Cloud Computing & Virtualization
  • Leveraging Endpoint Virtualization
  • Compliance in the New Age of Virtualization and Securing the Benefits of Virtualization 2.0
  • Enabling Disaster Recovery for any size business
  • The impact of IT Virtualization on Applications and Networks
  • Virtual Desktop Delivery
  • Potential of Virtualization
  • Managing Virtualization with IT Process Automation
  • Troubleshooting your virtual Infrastructure
  • Controlling Virtual server sprawl
  • Virtualization Management Futures
  • Agent-based Cloud Computing and Cloud Economy
  • Cloud Business Models

Web Technologies and Internet Applications

  • Web Technologies and Applications
  • Web Services based Systems and Applications
  • P2P Systems and Applications
  • Virtual Environments and Web Applications for eLearning

Social Computing and Behavioural Modeling

  • Theories of Social Computing
  • Psycho-cultural situation awareness
  • Social Network Analysis and Mining, Semantic web
  • Group formation and evolution
  • Social Behavior Modeling
  • Cultural patterns and representation
  • Human-machine Interactions
  • Social conventions and social contexts
  • Social Intelligence, Social Cognition
  • Causal, and non-linear relationships
  • Social Computing Applications
  • Modelling, projection, and forecasting
  • Analytic approaches
  • Social network analysis and mining
  • Group interaction and collaboration
  • Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
  • Group representation and profiling
  • Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts
  • Cultural modelling and dynamics
  • Social Engineering, Tools, and Case Studies
  • Influence process and recognition
  • Services Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, and Tools
  • Public opinion representation
  • Social System Design and Architectures
  • Search, data, and inference

Enterprise Resource Planning & Supply Chain Management

  • ERP performance measurement and optimization
  • Business case quantification and solution implementation
  • Obstacle identification and solution implementation
  • Supply Chain Management-Decision intelligence
  • The life cycle of ERP & SCM
  • ERP Security and Control
  • ERP embedded Controls
  • Process ERP
  • Problems in planning for an ERP project
  • ERP Implementation- a challenge to succeed
  • ERP Readiness and Relevance Assessment
  • Lean International Supply Management
  • Procurement Tactics for Managing through Crisis
  • Supply Chain Risk Management and Mitigation
  • Supply Chain Organization Structure and Strategy
  • Supply Chain Information Systems
  • Supply Chain planning
  • Analyzing Supply Chain Information Flow
  • Supplier Network Collaboration
  • Global Sourcing Operations
  • Strategic Supply Chain Management
  • Six Sigma Techniques
  • Economics of multi-node/multi-national supply chain
  • Supply Chain Performance Management
  • Business Process management & improvement

Mobile Communications, Networking and Applications

  • Mobile computing and wireless networking
  • Solutions to low power and energy limitations
  • Design, implementation, and evaluation of wireless systems and mobile applications
  • Algorithms/models for wireless networks and mobile applications
  • Measurements and performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks
  • Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks
  • Multimedia over Wireless
  • Next Generation Mobile Networks
  • Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs
  • Wireless mesh networks
  • Cellular data networks
  • Delay-tolerant networks
  • Mobile ad hoc networks
  • Personal area networks
  • Vehicular networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Smart Wireless Sensors
  • Ad hoc Networks
  • Wireless Security
  • Wireless IP networks
  • Seamless Mobility in Cellular Networks
  • Satellite-based Systems
  • Wireless QOS
  • Coding and Modulation
  • Wireless and Mobile applications
  • Wireless sensor network architectures
  • Semantic wireless sensor networks
  • Security and privacy in wireless sensor actuator networks
  • Wireless Emergency and Security Systems
  • Broadband mobile communication systems
  • Wireless technologies for sensors
  • Transmitters and receiver components
  • Bluetooth technologies
  • Developments in RF
  • Home networks
  • Mobile intelligent networks
  • Security aspects
  • Mobile intelligent networks
  • Mobile Computing Devices
  • Peer to Peer Tuning
  • Communications Software and Services
  • Mobile Computing Systems
  • Social networking applications
  • Vehicular Networks
  • QOS in Networks
  • Localization in Ad-hoc Networks
  • Convergence issues
  • 3G/4G Networks
  • Wireless Communications
  • Space-Time, UWB, MIMO and Adaptive Antennas
  • OFDM, CDMA and Spread Spectrum
  • Modulation, Coding and Diversity
  • Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
  • Channel Model and Characterization
  • Multi-Hop and Cooperative Communications
  • Interference Cancellation and MUD
  • Radio Resource Management and Allocation
  • Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio
  • Satellite & Space Communications
  • Multimedia Communications
  • Multiple Access Techniques
  • Optical Communications Network Technologies
  • Wireless & Mobile Networking
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Cognitive Radio Networks
  • Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking
  • Networking and Information Security
  • Network Protocol and Congestion Control QoS
  • Mobility, Location and Handoff Management
  • Capacity, Throughput, Outage and Coverage
  • Multimedia in Wireless Networks
  • Optical Networks and Systems Services and Application
  • Emerging Wireless/Mobile Applications
  • Context and Location-Aware Wireless Services
  • Wireless Telemedicine and E-Health Services
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • RFID Technology and Application
  • Cognitive Radio and Sensor-Based Applications
  • Content Distribution in Wireless Home Environment
  • Service-Oriented Architectures, Service Portability
  • SIP Based Services, Multimedia and Middleware
  • Innovative User Interfaces for Multimedia Services

Network Technologies & Communications

  • Ad hoc mobile networks
  • Addressing and location management
  • Broadband access technologies
  • Capacity planning
  • Cellular and broadband wireless nets
  • Cognitive radio networking
  • Congestion control
  • Content-based network service
  • Cross-layer design and optimization
  • Cyber‐physical systems and networks
  • Datacenter and cloud networks
  • Denial of service mitigation and prevention
  • Delay/disruption tolerant networks
  • Dynamic spectrum management
  • Energy‐efficient networks
  • Future Internet design
  • Grid networks
  • Implementation and experimental testbeds
  • Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols
  • Middleware support for networking
  • Mobility models and mobile networks
  • Multicast, broadcast and anycast
  • Multimedia protocols and networking
  • Network applications and services
  • Network architectures
  • Network coding
  • Network control
  • Network management
  • Network measurement, simulation and emulation
  • Online social networking
  • Optical networks
  • Peer‐to‐peer networks
  • Power control and management
  • Pricing and billing
  • Quality of service
  • Resource allocation and management
  • RFID networks and protocols
  • Routing protocols
  • Scheduling and buffer management
  • Security, trust and privacy
  • Self-organizing networks
  • Sensor networks and embedded systems
  • Switches and switching
  • Topology characterization and inference
  • Traffic measurement and analysis
  • Traffic engineering and control
  • Vehicular, underground and underwater networks
  • Virtual and overlay networks
  • Web services and performance
  • Wireless mesh networks and protocols